Radiator attachment.



J. F. KTTZROW. RADIATOR ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION MLPD 11,411.30, 1914.

Patented J an. 19, 1915.

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@IS'O/Me of JOHN F. .xlrznom or KENosHA, WISCONSIN.

RADIATOR ATTACHMEN Specicationof Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, i915.

Application filed March 30, 1914. Serial No. 828,335.

To aZZ 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known tha.'J I, JOHN F.-KrrzRow, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiator Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical, efficient and sanitary means for connecti with steam or hot-water heating radiat s to supply moisture to atmosphere in apartments heated by said radiators and for collecting dust particles floating in said apartments.

Figure 1 of the drawings represent a perspective view of air-moistening apparatus in accordance with my invention partly broken away and applied to a radiator of which a fragment is shown; Fig. 2, a partly sectional view of said apparatus an'd radiator; Fig. 3, a front elevation of a fragment of a wick element of the apparatus having a flexible support adjustable on an anchor-rod longitudinally of the same, and Fig. 4, a

perspective View illustrating a wick having another form of flexible support.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a fragment of a steam or hot- Water heating radiator, 6 a comparatively deep narrow water receptacle provided with hangers 7 by which to suspend it in connec tion with. the radiator. Radiators being of various lengths, receptacles of corresponding lengthv may be provided according to the demands of the trade, although one or more receptacles of a standard length may be employed on a single radiator.

Supported in each water receptacle is an anchor-rod 8, and loose on the rod are ends of flexible supports 9 for Wicks 10 that extend upward from .said receptacle to elevate the water therefroml by capillary attraction. The flexibly supported wicks are adjusted longitudinally of the anchor-rod to register cal coi with the spaces between coils of the adjacent radiator and they are bent at their upper ends to extend into. said spaces'. l

In practice, the receptacle 6 is hung in rear of a radiator at a suitable distance below the upper ends of its coils, andthe bending of the upper ends of the flexibly supported wicks between said coils may be such' become dirty they may be readily cleaned by boiling in water. A

As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3,l the flexible support for each wick may be ajacket of non-corrosive woven-wire having the lower end thereof extended from said wick and bent to have sliding lit on the anchor-rod, or each wick may have its individual anchor. In Fig. 4, it is shown that the flexible support may be a `flat strip 9"of non-corrosive metal having ears 9 bent on Ithe wick.

A,I claim The combination of a steam or hot water heatin radiator having two or more vertii, a single water receptacle suspended in connection with the radiator below the upper endsrof its coils, and one or more wicks each having an independent flexible support that' projects upward therewith from within `said receptacle and is also bent therewith at the upper end between a pair In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Kenosha inA the county of Kenosha and .State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

. JN0. F. KrrzRow. Witnees l R. M. Raum, H. J.'WINSTE,N. .K Y 

